Does it Matter what Slaves Thought Direct Tax Meant?
Does it Matter What Slaves Thought Direct Tax Meant uses a debate between two eminent tax scholars, Calvin Johnson and Erik Jensen, over what the term Direct Tax in the U.S. Constitution means, to illustrate four basic deliberative techniquestextualism, intentionalism, purposivism, and dynamism. In addition to a mere illustration, it also shows how this particular legal question finds an appropriate role or synthesis for formalism, realism, critical race theory, and law and economics.
